Caritas Institute Of Higher Education

How Parenting and Self-control Mediate the Link Between Social Media Use and Youth Mental Health

Teens who spend more than 5 hours a day on social media were 60% more likely to express suicidal thoughts or harm themselves, 2.8 times more likely to hold a negative view of their body, and 30% more likely to report a lot of sadness the day before. In this study, these mental health problems were only associated with YouTube and TikTok. Body image problems show significant effects associated with time spent on YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, and WhatsApp, but not the other platforms studied here.

Russia: between Israel e Palestine

The «piecemeal world war» evoked for years by Pope Francis is indeed turning into an increasingly global confrontation. Russia sees in this, the realisation of its «mission» to challenge the domination of the «collective» West. Solzhenitsyn’s words about the troubled relationship between Russians and Jews come to mind.